Nadine Dorries reported to speaker over ‘forceful’ emails about peerage

Nadine Dorries used ‘rather forceful communications … threatening to use her position as an MP to get to the bottom of why she hasn’t been given a peerage’, the Tory MP William Wragg said. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

Nadine Dorries has been reported to the chief whip and Commons speaker after allegedly sending “forceful” emails to the government about not being given a peerage.

In a highly unusual move, the cabinet secretary, Simon Case, revealed he had “flagged” the issue to the parliamentary authorities, and also asked for advice about any potential breach of the law.